11-letter words containing k, a, r, i, t
- multitasker — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
- nitro-chalk — a chemical fertilizer containing calcium carbonate and ammonium nitrate
- outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
- palk strait — a strait in the Bay of Bengal between SE India and N Sri Lanka, to the N of Adam's Bridge. 40–85 miles (64–137 km) wide.
- parking lot — an area, usually divided into individual spaces, intended for parking motor vehicles.
- partial key — (database) A key which identifies a subset of a set of information items (e.g. database "records"), and which could narrow the subset to one item if other partial key(s) were combined with it.
- perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
- piatigorsky — Gregor [greg-er] /ˈgrɛg ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–76, U.S. cellist, born in Russia.
- platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
- prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
- printmaking — the art or technique of making prints, especially as practiced in engraving, etching, drypoint, woodcut or serigraphy.
- private key — (cryptography) A piece of data used in private-key cryptography and public-key cryptography. In the former the private key is known by both sender and recipient whereas in the latter it is known only to the sender.
- privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
- prokaryotic — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- quick ratio — A quick ratio is a measure of liquidity that is calculated by dividing current assets minus inventories by current liabilities.
- ra-ra skirt — a short skirt with two or more overlapping 'tiers' of material or flounces (based originally on skirts worn by US cheerleaders)
- racket-tail — any of several birds with a racket-shaped tail, such as certain hummingbirds and kingfishers
- rail strike — a strike by railway workers
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- ratak chain — a chain of islands in the W Pacific Ocean, forming the E part of the Marshall Islands.
- ration book — a book showing an individual's entitlement to certain rationed goods
- realpolitik — political realism or practical politics, especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
- retail park — A retail park is a large specially built area, usually at the edge of a town or city, where there are a lot of large shops and sometimes other facilities such as cinemas and restaurants.
- rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
- rickettsial — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- ringstraked — ring-streaked.
- ripple-tank — a shallow container of water in which waves are produced by vibrating an object in the water, used to observe or demonstrate wave phenomena.
- risk factor — a condition, behavior, or other factor that increases risk: Smoking is a major risk factor for cancer; depression as a risk factor in suicide.
- risk-taking — courting danger or loss
- rock rabbit — rock hyrax.
- rotary kiln — type of industrial oven
- shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
- sidetracked — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
- singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- sir patrick — Norman Bel [bel] /bɛl/ (Show IPA), 1893–1958, U.S. industrial and stage designer and architect.
- skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
- skirt steak — a thin cut of beef taken from the plate or, sometimes, from the diaphragm
- smart drink — a nonalcoholic beverage with added amino acids and vitamins claimed to increase energy, improve memory, and boost intelligence.
- spirit lake — a lake in SW Washington, at the N foot of Mount St. Helens: site of devastation during 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
- spray skirt — a piece of waterproof material that fits around the paddler and opening of a kayak to keep water out of the craft.
- sterlitamak — a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, W of the Southern Urals.
- stickleader — a person assigned to check the appearance or condition of each person in a stick
- strike back — retaliate
- strip steak — cut of beef: sirloin
- sucker bait — an enticement calculated to lure a person into a scheme in which he or she may be victimized.
- svarabhakti — the process of inserting vowel sounds into a consonant cluster, as in a loanword to make it conform to the pattern of the speaker's language and, hence, more easily pronounceable, as in the Italian pronunciation [lahn-tsee-ke-nek-kaw] /ˌlɑn tsi kɛˈnɛk kɔ/ (Show IPA) for German Landsknecht [lahnts-knekht] /ˈlɑntsˌknɛxt/ (Show IPA).
- tailor-make — to make or adjust to meet the needs of the particular situation, individual, object, etc.: to tailor-make a tour.